Searching for Counselling For Abused People

• Provides professional counselling services
• Offers faith-based counselling if requested
• Offers the Family Strengthening program

• Abuse and neglect
• Addictions
• Depression and anxiety
• Eating disorders
• Grief
• Residential school experiences
• Self-esteem and identity
• Trauma

• Provides emergency shelter for women and children who require safe accommodations and are seeking refuge from abuse
• Allows women and children to stay up to 6 weeks

• Crisis and supportive counselling
• Safety planning

• Operates a 24-hour crisis line for Indigenous women and their children
• Provides immediate crisis assessment, intervention, referrals and follow-up

• Provides 24/7 telephone support, including text
• Offers an 8 hour mobile unit to provide in-person crisis assessment
• Operates a short-term Crisis Support Residence

Telephone support provides the following:

• Crisis assessment and intervention
• Follow-up
• Referrals to other community services
• Support to family and friends
• Wellness Planning

• Functions as an independent, non-profit cross-sectoral committee dedicated to ending violence against women
• Engages in systemic advocacy to improve the development and coordination of services for those affected by violence against women
• Works to ensure better enforcement of the laws to protect woman abuse survivors and their children
• Assists in community education on violence against women
• Represents the areas of women's services, child welfare, women's shelters, justice systems, police services, multicultural associations and other members of the community

• Offers culturally appropriate counselling services to Indigenous women by Indigenous women, via telephone, text, or chat

• Oji-Cree
• Cree
• Algonquin
• Inuktitut
• Mohawk
• Oneida
• Odawa
• Potawatomi
• Micmac
• Black Foot
• Anishnaabe
• Moose Cree
• Swampy Cree
• English

• Provides safe housing and support services to women leaving an abusive situation
• Operates 15 transitional and 12 permanent housing units with rent geared to income
• Provides outreach services to women and children who reside in the transitional housing units
• Provides access to programs and services offered through Beendigen

• Assists abused women in making the transition to an abuse-free life
• Helps women secure and maintain housing
• Helps with safety planning and developing short and long-term goals
• Provides transportation assistance

• Counselling
• Education upgrading
• Health and wellness services
• Housing
• Income support
• Job training
• Legal aid
• Parenting support

• Helps individuals navigate the judicial system
• Explains legal rights and court procedures
• Provides Courtworkers (Criminal, Family or Combined Courtworker) who act as a liaison between the offender, the courts and the Aboriginal Community Council Program (ACCP)
• Provides referrals, follow-up, and encouragement to offenders to become contributing members of the community

• Offers an out-patient mental health program with a multidisciplinary approach to treating a variety of mental health issues
• Provides individual counselling
• Emphasizes skill based training and other integrative educational strategies to help clients achieve their goals

• Anger Management Group
• Anxiety (Understanding Anxiety)
• Assertion Group
• Communication Group
• Depression (Understanding Depression)
• Family Issues Group
• Feeling Good Group
• Life
• Living with a Loss Group
• Men's Group
• Relationships Group
• Self-Esteem
• Soul (Returning to Soul)
• Spirituality Group
• Stress Management
• This Is Your Life - A Peer Support Group
• Wellness Group

• information on the family court process
• assistance in preparing for family court proceedings (documenting history of abuse, accessing Legal Aid)
• debriefing with clients following family court appearances
• referral to specialized services and supports in the community
• safety planning
• court accompaniment to proceedings when appropriate

• Assists abused women and their children in making the transition to an abuse-free life
• Helps secure and maintain housing and develop an individual safety and transitional plan
• Assists women in identifying the choices and resources available for them and their children

• Advocacy
• Confidential counselling
• Crisis intervention
• Custody support
• Education upgrading
• Health and wellness support
• Housing applications and access to priority housing
• Income support and budgeting
• Legal information and support
• Parental support

• Assistance in accessing employment and education
• Crisis intervention and referral services
• Individual counselling
• Support and advocacy for medical, legal and court appointments
• Support groups

• Advocacy
• Assistance with housing applications
• Individual and group counselling
• Legal aid and court appointments
• Safety planning

• Provides support, education, information and community awareness to both residents of the shelter as well as former residents
• Works with women in the application of and follow through with housing
• Accompanies and advocates for women regarding Ontario Works

• Operates a shelter for abused women, youth and their children who have been victims of physical, emotional, sexual or financial abuse
• Provides crisis services, confidential counselling, information and referral, and victim advocacy
• Provides public education and follow-up services where possible

Sexual Assault Centre

Crisis intervention and culturally sensitive counselling, supports and referrals

• a 24 hour telephone crisis line
• individual counselling and support groups
• legal support, advocacy, information, and referrals
• court support, accompaniment and advocacy program
• information on alternatives to legal justice system
• public education and training to end gender based violence in our community
• all services confidential
• Trans/ gender diverse positive environment

• Gives immediate legal assistance on family law issues to individuals who appear in court without a lawyer
• Provides information about legal rights, obligations and basic court procedure
• Helps negotiate or settle issues
• Reviews or prepares court documents to be filed
• Helps determines if further duty counsel services are required or if the matter requires Legal Aid Ontario's assistance in retaining a lawyer

• the courtroom for child protection hearings
• garnishment and support hearings
• requesting adjournments
• arguing motions
• hearings for issues such as custody, access, or support where the issues are not complicated

• Gives immediate legal assistance to individuals who appear in court for criminal matters without a lawyer
• Provides information about legal rights, obligation and the court process
• Provides assistance in the courtroom for bail hearings and sentencing
• Assists with diversions, guilty pleas and sentencing
• Helps determine if further duty counsel services are required or if the matter requires Legal Aid Ontario's assistance in retaining a lawyer

• Mental health
• Drug treatment
• Domestic violence
• Aboriginal persons (Gladue) court

• Abuse/Sexual Abuse Trauma
• Addictions
• Anger management
• Depression and anxiety
• Grief
• Residential School trauma
• Provides seminars on health issues such as depression, diabetes and parenting teens

• Provides holistic healing services
• Offers individual and group counselling

• Anger Management for Women (court approved)
• Child Witness
• Drumming Group
• Grief Counselling​
• Sacred Circle
• Sexual Abuse/Sexual Assault healing
• Support for Indigenous Trafficking Survivors
• Women Living Free From Violence Group
• Women's Addiction Program
• Walk-in Counselling

• Developed as a new program aimed at supporting healthy and whole Métis families
• Works to reduce family violence, the number of youth involved in the justice system and the number of children in care
• Focus is on providing direct one-on-one client services and educational resources and family wellness planning

• After school safe places and homework clubs
• Assistance in navigating the community support system
• Assisting children and youth to foster self-identity and to develop life skills
• Court-related supports
• Empowering parents to be their children's best advocates
• Ensuring families have their basic needs met
• Guidance for building healthy relationships and raising awareness of personal safety issues
• Peer support for youth involved in justice and correction issues
• Referrals for employment and training programs
• Supports for children and youth who have experienced or witnessed violence
• Supports for Métis youth to stay in school
• Support in case meetings and conferencing

• Criminal Law if custody is probable
• Family Law
• Child Welfare

• Legal representation for eligible clients who appear in court without a lawyer
• Legal aid applications and information over the phone
• Legal resources and referrals to other social assistance agencies
• A legal aid certificate program which enables a client to retain a lawyer for complex and serious cases

• Criminal
• Domestic violence
• Family

• Wrongful dismissal
• Change of name
• Personal bankruptcy
• Power of attorney
• Money lent to others or money owed to others
• Sponsorship of relatives
• Commercial litigation
• Real estate matters and libel
• Defamation and slander